ENTERTAINMENTS.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVI, Issue 4860, 3 August 1925, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS.

GAIETY THEATRE PICTURES. TO-NIGHT. “ BEAU BRUMMEL.” In “Beau Brummel,” the greatest of all romantic dramas, which is io be shown to-night, John Barrymore gives a vivid portrayal of the great dandy. He is seen as as the young Hussar and later as the leader oi wit and fashion, and the idol of England’s most distinguished ladies. Near the end of the picture the Beau is in disgrace. His -wealth is a thing of the past, he has to stint and deprive himself. It shows in the faintly etched lines, in the gaunt expression, the clothes, and the grey-streaked thin hair. This is a marvelloustransformation, but the greatest surprise of all follows. Beau is on his last legs, demented and living out his past splendour in his little room in the hospital. Here John Barrymore had to put to work all his imaginative resources to portray the lunatic, the man who grabs a hunk of bread and rams it down his throat, where years before he would have been the last word in fastidiousness and style.